great news today as centric tv did a feature on the “falling” video. keep your fingers crossed and hopefully we can get it on the channel soon! thanks to everyone for the love and support.
in celebration of my favorite producer of all time, i wanted to post a couple of dope things that people are doing in memory of jay dee. there’s great news and updates about the yancey estate, and you can read it at j-dilla.com.
i want to give props to my man kevin (www.kevinnottingham.com) as the entire week is dedicated to dilla and he has some of the best unreleased and underground stuff from the detroit legend.
here’s a few other things that popped up this week if you guys missed it:
Download: Jaylib vs. J Rocc [mp3] courtesy of Stones Throw a 30 min. mix by j-rocc.
DJ Rasta Root: The Rest of Dilla Vol. 1
Generation Next 5-Hour Radio Tribute to Dilla (i can only find link to first hour but you can peep it here).
Questlove’s SwiftFM page (all you need)
hope that’s enough to hold you over. anything else i see will be added. peace and love and we must honor people who dedicated their lives to giving us great music.
preach & ms. yancey a.k.a ma dukes
sup guys? we’re back in full effect. this is the new blutopia podcast #7. hope all is well on your end. i’m excited to be around such great new music and wanted to share it with yall. this is a great mixture of hip hop, soul, jazz etc. and probably the best one yet. it’s also feb. so there’s a big dilla theme. rest in peace jay dee and hope ya enjoy it yall.
tracklisting:
1.Intro
2.Transformers (Exhibit A)-Jay Electronica
3.New Money-Royce Da 5′9
4.How You Like Me Now-The Heavy
5.Gimme That Kinda-Electric Wire Hustle
6.Keep Going-Black Milk
7.One Thing-Freeway & Jake One feat. Raekwon
8.Oh Yes-Preach Jacobs & Denz (prod. by Clokwork)
9.Skin-Sade
10.All Matter-Robert Glasper & Bilal
11.Daykeeper-The Foreign Exchange
12.Sonar Kollektiv Orchester – Universal Love (4hero presents Extensions)
13.Fall In Love-Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (Suite For Ma Dukes)
Blutopia Podcast #7 hosted by Preach Jacobs (Download)
it’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since d’s last album. thankfully his output is so great that it is holding us down but that doesn’t mean we don’t want new stuff….or unreleased. check out an unreleased joint that sounds more like a rough draft/unmixed idea, but the shit still bangs. enjoy.
how do you convince people to actually cop your record? you do this. this has been copped. it comes out febuary 16th (i think). but you can pre-order it from here and get it signed.
sup yall? here’s another dope mix/podcastthat featured a track off of maple st. sessions. speaking of which if you haven’t copped it please visit the music/store section and get on that. enjoy.
Solid State Deluxe ::: #00013 ::: Hip-Hop & Soul track-listing:
1. Let Us Be Loving – Alice Russell – Pot Of Gold
2. Spotlight – Gift Of Gab – Escape 2 Mars
3. The Way That I Live (feat. Stacy Epps) – Madlib – Wlib: King Of The Wigflip
4. Find A Way – Eric Roberson – Presents: Vol. 1.5
5. I Don’t Care – Angie Stone – Unexpected
6. J Bounce – Jazz Chronicles – Jazz Chronicles
7. Here I Am (Featuring Phonte, Brother Ali, & The Grouch) – BK-One – Rádio do Canibal
8. Definition Pt. 2 (OG Mix) – The What!? – Definition Pt. 2
9. The Senator – Finale – A Pipe Dream and A Promise
10. If You Only Knew – Jurassic 5 – Power In Numbers
11. U Do (feat. Stacy Epps) – Jazz Liberatorz – Clin D’oeil
12. Forever – Eric Rico – Journey Back To Me
13. Work Of Art – Panacea – Ink Is My Drink
14. Hey Mr. DJ – Angie Stone – Unexpected
15. Talkin’ To Me (Mark Ronson Sunshine Remix) – Amerie – 1 Thing Single
16. The Left Side of Things – Replife – The Unclosed Mind
17. Day One (Prod. by Diamond) – D.I.T.C. – Rare & Unreleased
18. Blizzard – Nicolay & Kay – Time Line
19. In The Mood (feat. Kanye West & Roy Ayers) – Talib Kweli – Ear Drum
20. Invited Me – The Tones – Dreamtalk
21. Promise In Love (feat. Jose James) – DJ Mitsu the Beats – A Word to the Wise
22. Looking for da Rhythm – Sofia Rubina – My Sun
23. Touch ‘Em (prod. by J. Rawls) – John Robinson – I Am Not For Sale EP 1
24. Yagotta (Raindrops Remix) – Niamaj & Kero One – Plug Label
25. Forest Whitaker – Peach Jacobs & Denz – Maple St. Sessions
26. All My Love Is Gone (feat. Nicole Ham) – H2O Productions – Street Beats 7; vol. 7.
27. Feels So Good – Dwele – Sketches of a Man
28. Red Hot – Jurassic 5 – Feedback
29. We Here – Illa-J – Yancey Boys
30. Dice Games – Yesterday’s New Quintet – The Funky Side of Life
Playlist ::: Solid State Deluxe ::: #0013 ::: Hip-Hop & Soul Download
i haven’t heard much from steve jobs since he took a break last year, but it looks like apple is still holding it down. damn.
oddisee has always been a dope producer, but this past year he became one of my favorites. thanks to put me on it you can get odd winter for free.
tracklisting:
01 Ci’iy Life Feat. Tranqill
02 Frostbit
03 Winds From The North
04 Black Broadway Feat. X.O
05 Brain Wash Remix Instr.
06 Riiight Feat. Stik Figa
07 Carry On instr.
08 The Warm Up Feat. Homeboy Sandman
09 Queue With No Coat
10 60901 Instr.
11 All Because She’s Gone Instr.
12 It’s Over Feat. Tranqill
13 Blizzard Of 09
Online Extra: Black Power and Black Dynamite
By Looking Back, Film Points Toward a Possible Future for Black Cinema
I grew up being a huge fan of hip-hop music that was socially conscious and talked about black empowerment. At a young age, I preferred a Public Enemy record over M.C. Hammer and read more about Marcus Garvey than the Hardy Boys. So, when I kept hearing about movies like Shaft and Foxy Brown, I just knew that they would be the type of movies that would inspire me and make me feel like an honorary Black Panther.
I can remember the first time I saw Shaft. I hated it. Don’t get me wrong, the soundtrack was excellent and I absolutely love director Gordon Parks, but even at a young age I could tell that the acting was terrible, the editing was horrific and the chase scenes were comical. I thought that something was wrong with me. I went through a phase of righteous insecurity feeling that I should love these movies based on quality.
Fast forward a decade-and-a-half later: My 11-year-old self is now closer to 30 than to 20, and here comes Black Dynamite. I am instantly in love with the movie.
It’s difficult to do comedy, and it’s even more difficult to do satire — especially when the audience might not be aware of the joke.
But Black Dynamite has it all: great vintage 70s wardrobe, great soundtrack, kung-fu and boobies. Not to mention the tone, which acknowledges everything hysterical about blaxploitation movies in the ’70s (like scenes where Black Dynamite chases a villain named Chicago Wind as he escapes in his red Porsche 911. But when the car makes an unexpected turn off a cliff, the editing shows an entirely different car falling off the edge bursting into flames).
The movie has an all-star cast including appearances by Arsenio Hall, Brian McKnight, Salli Richardson and a few adult film stars. The movie is funny as hell, action-packed and filled with kung-fu.
It also taught me something about the movies in that era and genre: It wasn’t important for the movies to be any good. The nostalgia comes from finally having a voice in a medium that ignored people of color too long. Shaft was the first time you saw a black lead as a kick-ass superhero talking back to whitey. That might sound comical now, but imagine being a child seeing that for the first time in 1971.
Black Dynamite pays homage to both fallen careers and resurrected ones from the ’70s (like Pam Grier finding new life in a modern day blaxploitation film Jackie Brown and now being on The L Word). The movie is shot on Super 16 Color Reversal Kodak film and accompanied by an astounding soundtrack by Adrian Younge channeling the music that’s as good as Curtis Mayfield’s efforts in Superfly (and throwback posters reminiscent of Dolemite).
The movie is a time machine that makes the beginnings of a revolution look sexy.
Being a supporter and critic of African-American cinema, I am concerned about how my people are portrayed in film as well as the lack of diversity in films. I can say with certainty that Black Dynamite is a refreshing take on what black cinema can be in the new millennium and offer something more than movies where the lead is a 6’4″ man dressed in drag (I’m just saying). Who knew you could be revolutionary by taking a look back?
i’m very excited about this project that 9th wonder and david banner are doing titled ‘death of a pop star’.
the first leak of the project titled “slow down” is available for download (courtesy of 2dopboyz).
David Banner + 9th Wonder “Slow Down” Download
also, if you haven’t checked out the video section be sure to peep this little video of me with 9th wonder and friends with a funny encounter with me meeting david banner. great times indeed. enjoy.
